Blogs for the NC State Community (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... where the technology comes in, I began taking French in ninth grade using the multimedia program Rosetta Stone. Compared to Latin, learning French was a picnic complete with cake and some water tubing. The program provided such an effortless, fun, and effective way to learn that I really don't see how I ever learned a even a smattering of Latin. A specific application of technology...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Dan Perrin lists "The Seven Reasons McCain-Palin Are a Lock to Win." Here's reason #1: The first and foremost reason McCain-Palin will win is the absolute arrogance, elitism, condescending, patronizing and in-your-face voter suppression campaign – don’t vote for McCain,...
Blogcritics: Sci/Tech (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 1: A good but expensive program, and not without good, old hard work. Since my kids are now in college and I’m left with a nice, clean empty nest, I thought I would take this opportunity to pursue some interests I’ve left on the back burner for too long. One of these pursuits is to learn enough Japanese to be able to go to Japan to visit with distant relatives....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
INSTRUMENTAL HEAVYWEIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN 57 TODAY Once in a spell music finds new languages, fresh dialects drawn from the same Rosetta Stone that everyone thought well studied, known terrain. Jaco Pastorius was one of these rare individuals, opening up forever the possibilities of the electric bass guitar and eroding the calcification that occurs when any genre becomes set in its ways....
Cool Tools (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
I planned my first trip to Japan six months out with every intention of studying basic language skills in advance. I subscribed to a podcast, looked into Rosetta Stone , and added a few foreign films to our Netflix queue. Easier said than done. After five months of procrastination (just being honest), I picked up this book as a last-ditch effort to learn at least a little as we traveled....
No fighting, no biting! (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Yesterday afternoon Michelle of Rosetta Stone and her 6 kids came over for a visit. 10 kids running up and down, 'round and 'round, in and out 1 baby chewing happily on refrigerator letters 2 moms sharing stories from the trenches at the kitchen table 1 smashed thumb followed by a bowl of ice cream 2 pairs of wet pants from falling in the stream Mixed and stirred together produced a lovely...
Dogster For The Love of Dog Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
I’m thinking Swedish dogs don’t read English. If they did they would have learned a lesson from the story the other day about the Pit Bull who drove the car through the car wash. This incident was so unnecessary, had those dogs ordered an English course from Rosetta Stone this tragedy could have been avoided. A [...]
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... found it. It was, of course, amazing. Sam teased me constantly for how excited I got. They had the Rosetta stone and the pediment of the Parthenon. They also had an impressive display of Egyptian sculptures. The European section was sadly tiny and I lamented the lack of giant statues in British history. C'est la vie! I didn't choose to love British history so much. After that, we...
the defeatists! (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... period of "research" predated modern geology, palenthology, and things like the discovery of the Rosetta Stone or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ussher was working from the King James Bible to prove the authenticity of the King James Bible. As a work of history it ranks right up there with...fuck, I don't know, the Aeneid.) Considered not only a literary classic, but also an accurate reference,...
London Walks (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
2.15 pm on Mondays from Holborn Tube The British Museum is the big one...the most important museum on the planet. It's an incomparably rich treasure-chest, brimming with things of world historical importance. The Rosetta Stone, the Egyptian antiquities and mummies, the Elgin Marbles, the Black Obelisk, the Magna Carta, the 2,000-year-old Lindow Bog Man, the Sutton Hoo treasure...here...
Tilt.no (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... own, and which you aren’t very familiar with. But short of a learning course at a local college, Rosetta Stone, or in interactions with users on Mango or LiveMocha , any sources for spur-of-the-moment vocal references to words or short phrases are certainly few in number. That’s where Forvo enters the picture. Forvo isn’t a translation database. It’s a guide toward more accurate vocalizations...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... own, and which you aren’t very familiar with. But short of a learning course at a local college, Rosetta Stone, or in interactions with users on Mango or LiveMocha , any sources for spur-of-the-moment vocal references to words or short phrases are certainly few in number. That’s where Forvo enters the picture. Forvo isn’t a translation database. It’s a guide toward more accurate vocalizations...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Hello AllIt's been about two weeks since I last wrote. You haven't missed out on much. Last time I wrote I had just gotten back from Edinburgh and that was the last big thing I did until this past weekend when I went on a tour to Stonehenge Salisbury Cathedral and Bath. But first things first...The weekend of Oct 25th On Friday I went to the British Museum for the first time. It was amazi
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Oh, man. The New Yorker put up William Finnegan's 2004 article about Barack Obama, and boy, is it an interesting read on this day of all days. It's a kind of Rosetta Stone of Obama studies, so many telltale indicators of a personage we can now recognize as a future president. (One quick example: at that time they called succumbing to his charisma to work tirelessly for him "drinking the...
Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... of simultaneously connecting your mobile phone for hands-free calling. Any Car, Any SystemGet Rosetta Stone’s award-winning language learning software this month and save 15% off the RRP. Voted Macworld’s Education Product of the Year. Over 30 languages available.Toast 9 Titanium from Roxio – awarded Editor’s Choice by MacWorld for being the "Swiss Army knife of digital lifestyle"....
